6 Years Old

 6 Years Old

Dear Millie,

Millie, you are such  an amazing person. Dad and I are so pleased with how you are growing up. One thing that I really love about you is how you have the ability to make the people around you feel like the most important person. You are so good about treated people with kindness, including them in your play and activities, and just being plain fun with them. I have heard from so many other moms how their kid loves playing with you. You are such a good friend.

I love how nurturing you are. You are always looking ways to help JoJo. You are excited to babysit her and read her books. When Vella was here the other day, I admire how well you helped me take care of her. You are going to be an amazing mom one day.

Another thing that I love about you is how you love to have fun! You make life enjoyable by blasting music and having a dance party. I still laugh when I walked in your room one day and you and Cecily were dressed up in Maggie’s fancy dresses, jumping up and down to some catchy teenager song. Yo love life and are good about bringing joy to the people around you.

Dad and I are so proud of you are Millie. We love you so much.
Love, Mom

We celebrated your birthday while we were in California. You were given a badge saying it was your birthday. Because of that, all the cast members wished you happy birthday whenever you walked by. The best part was the parade. We were on this bend that didn't have many people. There were so many people that came out of the parade to wish you a happy birthday. Christoff stopped by and gave you a hug, Aladdin let you rub his lamb for a wish, Tinkerbell sprinkled fairy dust on you. The badge said your name on it, so they all wished you a happy birthday by name. You definitely felt like the VIP of the night. On your actually birthday, we went to Goofy's kitchen for character dinning. You loved the buffet. Minnie made you a special cupcake and the characters sang to you. You told you it was extra special  because it was your golden birthday. When we got back, you celebrated your birthday with your friends with a Mermaid party where all nine of you girls crammed into the hot tub. You loved it all. 

Five.Eleven Years

 5.11 Years

• We started this month by setting goals as a family to go along with the primary program. Your goals this year (with some guidance from me and dad) is physical: to learn how to ride a two wheeler and run to the stop sign and back; spiritual: read the comic scriptures of the New Testament; intellectual: read a chapter book by yourself; social: play with a new friend at recess each week.
• It's been a pretty regular month around here with school. Your teach put you in your own reading group with a separate teacher that comes in and just reads to you. I received an email from your reading teacher that they wanted to start reading Magic Treehouse. I was so excited because you were nervous about setting the goal to read a chapter book and I thought when we were setting goals, that Magic Treehouse is a great first chapter book. This email came the day after you agreed to make that your goal. It was nice to see that God will help you and care about you.
• Grandma and Papa Price came and stayed with you kiddos for 9 days while Dad and I were on a trip. You guys had a blast without us. For Christmas, you each made a coupon of a date that you wanted to do with them. You got to take Papa out for a brownie sundae at The Trails. At night, instead of reading books, Grandma would share stories of her life. There was hot tubbing, movie watching, dollar store craft buying, thrift store shopping, board gaming, and partying. You guys were so good to them and I know they really enjoyed their time here. 
• We have been skiing twice now as a family. I was going up the lift with you. I asked you, "Millie, I am scared of going down fast the hill. How do you go so fast?" I loved your reply. You told me, "I just tell myself that I am Millie and I can do anything." I was so proud of you and your bravery. But in all reality, you smoke me down that mountain. Especially jump hill. Dad loves taking you up the lift because you guys will play 20 questions and I Spy. 
• You started dance this month. The ballet class was full and later in the evening, so you switched to Jazz this year. The class only had three girls in the fall, but now there are 12 of you. You have really enjoyed it.
• We had the worst playdate with your friend Paige. First, you girls wanted to do science stuff. So you got out your science kit and made your own volcano. I told you girls that if you were going to make a mess, you were in charge of cleaning it up. Well, your definition of clean is a lot looser than mine. I had to reclean the kitchen. While I was doing that, you girls got into the hot tube Good, you can't really make a mess there. Well, Paige thought it would be fun to rip the muddy grass out of the ground and make mud pies in the hot tub. I walked down there to check on you and the water was dark brown with clumps of dirt and grass all over the place. AHHHH! I am grateful dad was there. We had to drain the whole thing, wipe it out, and refill it. I was so grateful that the weather was warmer so we could use the hose. Needless to say, you were grounded from the hot tub for a week. We still love you though.